[Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants

[Doug Way]

Barbara,

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying.  I would say our preference would be to use the library-circ limit versus the total-group circ criteria if we’re going to up the numbers, unless you’re able to do what you describe below.  I think that means we’re on the same page (maybe?).  I may have misunderstood what criteria we were looking at using, but I thought we could still use the library-level 3 circ maximum and reach our 700,000+ number.  Perhaps I need to reread the thread, so someone please correct me if I am wrong.  

Doug


From: Barbara J Cockrell [mailto:barbara.cockrell at wmich.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:58 PM
To: Doug Way
Cc: Randy Dykhuis; mcls-print-storage at mcls.org
Subject: Re: [Mcls-print-storage] New MCLS print project participants

Doug et al,
I don't see how you will have "high use" titles in your pool as anything that has circ'd more than 3 times at ANY library won't make the deselection candidate list if I'm understanding this correctly. I'm more concerned about the situation where several libraries may have to retain low (or no use titles) that never made the potential candidate list because they happen to be high circulating titles in another library (or two) that would probably be only too happy to keep that title on behalf of the group.  Those titles never appear on the radar in our current set up because they have circulated more than 3 times in certain libraries. See for example Randy's proposed criteria title 4 example. CMU, EMU and GVSU should be able to have that title on their potential discard list ideally in my opinion. I have no idea how many such titles there are likely to be. 

As I said earlier - I am more than willing to be pragmatic about this to keep the project moving forward at this stage - we have plenty to work on. I just want to be careful about what we lock ourselves into for the future.
Barbara